Honda CB750

The CB750 spawned the term ‘UJM’ (Universal Japanese Motorcycle). It was the first ‘super bike’—and its engine became popular for all kinds of sport bikes. It’s been named, in various ways, as one of the greatest motorcycles ever made by a wide variety of sources. It’s in the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame. Legendary racer Dick Mann won Daytona on his.

What more is there to know? The Honda CB750 is the inline-four that changed the game for both riders and builders. Introduced in 1969 and iterated for over three decades, the CB750 has been bent into every style you can imagine and has shined in every one of them. The builds covered here are just a very few of the possibilities, and several of those have been featured in the Bike EXIF calendar.

For some people, building custom bikes is a sideline—an after-hours escape from the daily grind. For others it’s purely a business, with success measured by income and Instagram likes. And then there’s the third type: the guys who are so passionate about the scene, they’d mortgage their house to keep going. Malmö-based Fredrik Pål Persson…

Mike LaFountain has been working on vintage motorcycles since he was 17, and he’s a perfectionist. His creations are nut-and-bolt perfect; they attract crowds (and awards) at premier events like The Quail, and sit next to other supermodels at the Haas Moto Museum. Getting to this level of quality can take quite a toll on…

The CB750 is one of the most customized bikes of the past half-century. But just when we thought we’d seen every possible permutation, along comes something completely different: a DOHC ‘K’ with a nitrous injection system. ‘Starrider’ comes from brothers Lion and Ben Ott of Munich-based Motoism, and it’s road-legal on even the TÜV-strangled roads…

There are around 2.5 million motorcycles on the road in Pakistan. Which sounds impressive until you learn that the population is over 210 million—and most of those bikes are tiny Chinese- and Japanese-made commuters. The custom scene is virtually non-existent, because the import duty on motorcycles is a whopping 50%, and there are sales taxes…